Beartooth @ Paristown Hall - Louisville
May 3rd 2022: Beartooth with Silverstein, The Devil Wears Prada, and Erra @ Paristown Hall - Louisville
Beartooth at Paristown Hall - Emily May
Beartooth brought their Part 2 of The Below Tour to Louisville, KY on May 3rd, with this being their final show of this leg of the tour. The venue was packed, with a sizeable crowd gathering this evening looking forward to a fun night of music. Starting out the evening was progressive metalcore band Erra. Hailing from Birmingham, AL, they talked about how it was the last night of their tour and that they’d had a great time and made a lot of new friends. Full of energy, singer J.T. Cavey, guitarist/clean vocalist Jesse Cash, and bassist Conor Hesse stood often on the platforms at the front of the stage to better engage the crowd, with Cavey having each side of the crowd scream “Hell Yeah!” and judged who was loudest! They definitely got the evening started out on a high note! Next up was The Devil Wears Prada, a metalcore band from Dayton, OH. A bundle of energy from start to finish, they talked about how good it was to back in KY. Performing both older and newer songs, they had a varied setlist that included “Watchtower”, “Termination”, “Chemical”, and “Sacrifice”. Being the last night of tour, all of the bands were having fun together, with Beartooth’s Caleb Shomo making an appearance on stage at one point! Next up was long-standing Canadian rock band Silverstein. Having formed in 2000, the band has amassed a dedicated fan base over their 2 decades as a band. Lead singer Shane Told announced early in the set, “Louisville! It’s good to be here! It’s been a while! We are happy to squeeze you in on the final day of the greatest tour of 2022!”. Performing a setlist that included “Bad Habits”, “Vices”, “My Heroine”, “Retrograde”, and “Massachusetts”, they also announced their new album due to be released on May 5th, launching into their latest single “Ultraviolet”. Joking with the crowd about the band had only been coming here for 18 years and had just started correctly pronouncing Louisville, he then asked how many people remember the old songs from 2003, then performing “Smashed Into Pieces”. Thanking the crowd for coming out and Beartooth for having them out on tour, the band ended their set with “Smile In Your Sleep.”
As an intro to Beartooth coming out on stage, AC/DC’s “TNT” played and a white curtain hung across the front of the stage. As the band came out, the curtain dropped, and the crowd erupted into cheers and screams as the band appeared on stage. With platforms that extended across the entire length of the front of the stage, singer Caleb Shomo walked back and forth throughout the entire set, giving both sides of the room ample attention. The band performed a lengthy setlist that included ““Aggressive”, “Hated”, “Body Bag”, and “The Lines”. Chatting quite a bit with the crowd, Shomo addressed them early on, after directing the fan’s cheering like a conductor, saying “You guys are insane! Are you having a good night? Has anyone out there seen Beartooth before? Any first-timers? If you weren’t already aware, we came here to do do one thing, and one thing only-rock your faces off with high voltage rock and roll! This is the last show of the tour, so normally I’d say no pressure, but we’ve played a lot of really great shows so far. I think this could be the craziest. Open up the mosh pit. This song is called “Fed Up””. Leading the fans in plenty of sing alongs, there was a fun energy to the set that kept the crowd engaged and having a good time. Talking about what the opening bands meant to him, Shomo talked about how The Devil Wears Prada had a great impact on his life and changed the trajectory of what he wanted to do, and that Silverstein have become some of his closest friends he has toured with and that he has written Beartooth songs with them. He then dedicated the next song, “Phantom Pain”, to every band on the tour, and told the crowd to form a circle pit. Shomo also thanked the fans for coming out, telling them it really meant a lot because so many bands over the past couple of years had no idea whether not not they would ever tour again, so to come to Louisville on a Tuesday night to such a great crowd was a beautiful thing to see. “Ending” the set with “In Between”, the band then came back out for a two song encore, ending the night with “The Past Is Dead” and “The Last Riff”. It was a great night of music and the crowd’s fun and infectious energy made it even greater!
BEARTOOTH
SILVERSTEIN
THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA
ERRA
